LUMP share new single 'Gamma Ray'

With their highly-anticipated new album now just days away, LUMP have dropped the final cut to be lifted from their forthcoming full-length.

The new single 'Gamma Ray' comes accompanied by a stunning animated video, directed by the duo's Laura Marling, and follows on from the previously shared tracks 'We Cannot Resist', 'Climb Every Wall', and the record's title-track in previewing their sophomore LP 'Animal', which is out this Friday 30th July via Partisan/Chrysalis.

Speaking about the new offering, the band's Mike Lindsay said, “There’s this part from the second half where you hear a voice, and in my mind that was the LUMP creature speaking to us saying ‘Excuse me, I don’t think we’ve been introduced’, and then it does this kind of ‘Ahhh!’ sound, that’s LUMP going through my Eventide H949 Harmonizer. I think that’s how you say ‘LUMP’ in LUMP language. Laura also uses the word ‘gawped,’ which is brilliant.”

While Marling added, “The lyrics are all just nonsense writing, but I always had in my mind a story I’d heard about my Dad’s cousin dying. He died very young, he committed suicide sadly, obviously long before I was born. He was incredibly good looking and everyone loved him, and when they tolled the bell at his funeral two of my Dad’s sisters fainted. They were so overcome. ‘Gawping’ comes from French singer Georges Brassens, who did a really weird song called ‘Brave Margot,’ and in the translation there is something about the men ‘gawping’."

Check out the new video for 'Gamma Ray' in the player below.

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